I have at last begun to get my ideas for this project into some sort of order. It is clear now how I want to proceed and I am currently cutting the different lino cuts to achieve the images I want. I would like to explore a multilayered idea with each layer evoking a sense of a place important to me from my past. I have cut 3 linocuts today and have 3 more tomorrow. I need to complete one colograph and screen print to begin to acheive the idea I have. Working with Don as my partner, looking at his work started me thinking of my time in Brunei, and the sense of place I had their. This has led by steps to where I am now.
Allison John
I have been working on some ideas about the view from my window when I wake up and thoughts that go through my head. Life, family, work, news, politics, what I love, what annoys, hopes and dreams. I have a particular interest in these layers of life, the multiplicity and daily chaos. All going on as I gaze quietly outward.
The images here are an initial line drawing printed onto canvas and a then a layering of images – some drawn, some photographed and altered in Photoshop.
My partner is Kate Bruder from Glyndwr. We had an initial meeting before Christmas to say hello and talk about our individual work but otherwise agreed to work independently until we swop. I am really curious to see what she is up to.
Jacky Owen
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Today has been one of those days. It's been like swimming through treacle. There is something there slightly out of reach. Changed media and have just been playing.
I have revisited my lino prints and decided that on their own they don’t convey enough of the experience, so I have decided to use fragments of them and also fragments of digital prints I took during the walk and things I collected or have made to act as mementos. I have also included text as a way of trying to express what I was feeling. These elements have been packaged into three smaller collections that overall convey the whole experience. I have packaged the individual collections into plastic ‘air packaging’ pockets for ‘safety’. I have included an inventory of the whole piece as a way of drawing it all together and will send it to Alma my partner this week. I hope she can get something from it! Louise Tett
These are the latest set of images I have been working on. I'm planning a series of lino cuts called impressions of Borneo! These two are very loosely based on tattoo and fabric patterns of the Iban people. On studying the patterns from the Iban culture I found there is a similarity with those originating in the Celtic culture and reflections of those found in Japanese Aztec artefacts. I am trying to reflect this fusion in these images.
